Contested Worldings of E-Waste Environmental Justice: Nonhuman Agency and E-Waste Scalvaging in Guiyu, China

被引:11
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作者
Wang, Kun [1 ]
Qian, Junxi [2 ]
He, Shenjing [3 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Geog & Resource Management, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Hong Kong, Dept Geog, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Hong Kong, Fac Architecture, Shenzhen Inst Res & Innovat, Dept Urban Planning & Design,Social Infrastruct E, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
actor-network theory; capability environmental justice; distributional environmental justice; e-waste; nonhuman agency; agencia no humana; capacidad; e-basura; justicia ambiental distributiva; teoria del actor-red; ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY; GOVERNANCE; FLOWS;
D O I
10.1080/24694452.2021.1889353
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Current environmental justice (EJ) research is moving beyond the distributional paradigm to embrace frameworks that emphasize the plurality of EJs. This study proposes that actor-network theory (ANT), which foregrounds nonhuman agency and heterogeneous associations, holds great potential for pushing forward this research agenda. It presents an ANT-informed analysis of the plural epistemologies of EJ by focusing on a global e-waste scalvaging hub-Guiyu in China. E-waste is considered a fluid and emergent material actant. The multiplicity of e-waste materialities coconstitutes the disparate worldings of EJ, with a wide range of actors involved in the knowledge-making practices. Disparate EJ realities concerning e-waste scalvaging have been worlded and enacted through the heterogeneous associations among numerous nonhuman actors, including discarded electronic devices, environmental conditions, pollutants, toxic substances, artifacts, discourses, tools and techniques, and a variety of human stakeholders, ranging from nongovernmental organizations, media, and academics to local scalvagers relying on e-waste for livelihood and wealth. In tracing these heterogeneous associations, this study juxtaposes two competing EJ worldings related to the ontological indeterminacy of e-waste. It first problematizes the worlding of North-to-South dumping that not only mispresents the complex geographies of e-waste, but also epitomizes a simplified distributional model of EJ.Then it ventures to theorize an often-neglected and underresearched dimension: EJ as situated capabilities and functionings concerned by the local community. This study thus adds to ongoing efforts to advance pluralist epistemologies of EJ. ?????????, ???????????????????????, ???????????????????, ??????????????????????????????, ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, ?????????????, ???????????????????????????????, ?????, ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, ???????????(?????????????, ??????????????????????)???????????, ????????????????????????????????????????????????, ?????????????????????, ?????????????????, ????????????????????????????????????????????, ???????????????????????? La investigacion corriente sobre justicia ambiental (EJ) esta yendo mas alla del paradigma distribucional para acoger marcos que enfatizan la pluralidad de las EJs. Este estudio formula la propuesta de que la teoria actor-red (ANT), que proclama la agencia no humana y las asociaciones heterogeneas, guarda mucho potencial para impulsar esta agenda investigativa. Se presenta un analisis basado en ANT de las epistemologias plurales de la EJ centrando la atencion en un punto focal de limpieza global de basura electronica--Guiyu, en China--. La e-basura es considerada un material actante fluido y emergente. La multiplicidad de materialidades de la e-basura co-constituye disparidades terreas de la EJ, con un amplio rango de actores involucrados en practicas productoras de conocimiento. Las realidades dispares de la EJ concernientes a la limpieza de la e-basura han sido tornadas a una condicion de mundanalidad y realizadas por medio de asociaciones heterogeneas entre numerosos actores no humanos, que incluyen aparatos electronicos desechados, condiciones ambientales, polutantes, sustancias toxicas, artefactos, discursos, herramientas y tecnicas, y una variedad de partes interesadas que van desde organizaciones no gubernamentales, los medios y academicos, hasta los limpiadores locales que dependen de la e-basura como su medio de vida y riqueza. Al seguir las trayectorias de estas asociaciones heterogeneas, este estudio yuxtapone dos mundanidades de la EJ en competencia relacionadas con la indeterminacion ontologica de la e-basura. Primero se problematiza la mundanidad del vertimiento de desechos de Norte-a-Sur que no solo presenta mal las complejas geografias de la e-basura, sino que ademas epitomiza un modelo distribucional simplificado de la EJ. Se intenta luego teorizar una dimension a menudo soslayada y muy poco investigada: la EJ como capacidades y funcionalidades situadas de preocupacion para la comunidad local. Asi, pues, este estudio se suma a los esfuerzos actuales para desarrollar mas las epistemologias pluralistas de la EJ.
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页码:2165 / 2184
页数:20
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